dormir
Meaning
- (intransitive) to sleep
- (reflexive) to fall asleep
- (reflexive) to sleep in
- (euphemistic) to die; to rest in death
- (transitive) to put to sleep (someone or something)
- (euphemistic) to anesthetize
- (euphemistic) to euthanize, to put down (mainly for pets but also people)
Concepts
sleep
be asleep
sleep off
rest
slumber
roost
kip
have
send to sleep
sit
catch some Z’s
log Z’s
lay-down, to
catnap
drowse
go to bed
asleep
lie down
sleeps
Frequency
Hyphenated as
dor‧mir
Pronounced as (IPA)
/doɾˈmiɾ/
Etymology
Inherited from Old Spanish dormir, from Latin dormīre, dormiō, from Proto-Italic *dormiō (“sleep”), from Proto-Indo-European *drem- (“run, sleep”).
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